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Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 7: Some minor West Indians

Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 7: Some minor West Indians
IST 03 August 2018 •4:02 PM IST
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 6: Maurice Leyland, Denis Compton, Arthur Morris

Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 6: Maurice Leyland, Denis Compton, Arthur Morris
01 August 2018 •6:00 AM IST
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 5: Johnny Wardle

Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 5: Johnny Wardle
31 July 2018 •6:00 PM IST
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 4: Garry Sobers

Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 4: Garry Sobers
31 July 2018 •6:00 AM IST
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 3: Lindsay Kline

Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 3: Lindsay Kline
30 July 2018 •6:00 PM IST

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Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 2: Chuck Fleetwood-Smith

Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 2: Chuck Fleetwood-Smith

“If ever the result of a Test match can be said to have been decided by a single ball, this was the occasion,” wrote Don Bradman of Chuck Fleetwood-Smith's dismissal at Adelaide, 1936-37.

30 July 2018 •9:28 AM IST
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 1: Ellis Achong

Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 1: Ellis Achong

Part 1 of the series on Chinaman bowlers deals with Ellis Achong, often wrongly credited with the first popular exponent of the genre of delivery.

27 July 2018 •4:42 PM IST
Chinaman bowling, Kuldeep Yadav and half-baked articles

Chinaman bowling, Kuldeep Yadav and half-baked articles

The guise of decoding the cause of failure of the English batsmen, the article just quotes a few known facts, ignores some very relevant ones, and claims that the cause-effect relationship is irrevocably established. This is a major problem with analysis carried out by time-constrained journalists.

17 July 2018 •12:04 PM IST
Wisden replaces Chinaman with slow left-arm wrist-spin bowlers

Wisden replaces Chinaman with slow left-arm wrist-spin bowlers

So far there have been 30 Chinaman bowlers in international cricket.

12 April 2018 •9:15 PM IST
Let’s do away with the ‘racist’ term Chinaman… and why stop there?

Let’s do away with the ‘racist’ term Chinaman… and why stop there?

There are some who have pointed out that the type of delivery and the word associated with it predates Achong, and specifically that the word was used in the English grounds in the 1920s, a good part of a decade before Achong plied his stuff.

03 April 2017 •9:24 PM IST
Watch Kuldeep Yadav take five-wicket haul with the pink ball

Watch Kuldeep Yadav take five-wicket haul with the pink ball

The young spinner has been rising in stature with every outing and it won’t come as a surprise if he soon gets to don the Team India jersey.

26 August 2016 •11:04 AM IST
Ellis Achong: 9 facts about the Chinaman who supposedly became part of cricket lexicon

Ellis Achong: 9 facts about the Chinaman who supposedly became part of cricket lexicon

Ellis Achong was not the inventor of the Chinaman. It wasn't even named after him. But he somehow made it to the lexicon of cricket, thanks to a conversation between Walter Robins and Learie Constantine.

16 February 2016 •12:54 PM IST
Ellis ‘Puss’ Achong — The man who was probably responsible for the term ‘chinaman’

Ellis ‘Puss’ Achong — The man who was probably responsible for the term ‘chinaman’

Ellis Achong was also the first known person of Chinese origin to play Test cricket.

16 February 2014 •11:22 AM IST

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